66th Armor Regimenet

The 66th Armor Regiment is the oldest armored regiment in the US Army, active since 1918. The regiment traced its lineage to the 301st Tank Battalion, which was formed in 1918 during World War I; George S. Patton was said to have been its commander. The 301st was the only American tank battalion to see action during the war; it would later become an armored regiment on 15 July 1940 as a part of its deployment to Fort Benning, Georgia under the US 2nd Armored Division. The regiment took part in Operation Torch (November 1942) in Morocco, Operation Husky (July 1943) in Sicily, the Battle of Normandy (June 1944), the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944), and the Central Europe Campaign (1945). Some parts of the unit fought in the Korean War, while the rest of it was deployed to West Germany during World War II. The regiment later fought in the Gulf War in 1990 and the Iraq War in 2003, while its third battalion fought in the Afghanistan War.